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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-09-15
No. 80.

fel' she ken make er mule powerful
tired fore de sun goes down. Oh, yas,
she's er Sc made lady, but l knowl-
edges dat she would'n be such er fine
pusson eff l had acted mean an flung
stumbin' blocks in her way."-Arkon-
SOS Traveller.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD.
Their New Arms and Equipments Inspect
ed by Gems Peck and Gilmore.

MONTPELIER, March 2S.-The new arm
and equipments for the Vermont Nation
al Guard arrived at the State arsenal and
were inspected by djutant-General L.
Peck of Burlington and QuarteImaster
General W. H. Gilmore. The arms re
Gently purchased for the militia con
sist of 500 Springfield rifles, model
of 1881, which will take the place OF
tie Old muzzle leaders which have been
IN use Is years. The new rifles are OF No.
A. calbre with blue steel barrels and bay
onets and weigh only eight pounds The
new equipments consist of FraSler's i'm
proven car ridge box, holding 20 round,
of ammunition, with its sliding cover,
aud he necessary black leather belts.
Nermuut's citlZ-n soldiery l. he nrsI
militia organization to be supplied with
these Cartridge boxes, which are pro
nuuuced by high military authority
to he superior TO any now IN use,
Twenty thousand rounds OF rifle ball
cartridges VITA bullets weighing 405
grains were also received at the arsenal
Tue uew rtl = Will be forwarded at once u
the various companies comprising the Ma
tional Guard, each company being lurnlsn
ed with Al guns. The separate company
of infantry authorized by the last Legls-
lature will soon be formed at Richford.
Tue new company Will be uniformed
in the Unit ed states army regulation dress
of blue The new arms ana equipments
were contracted for by Quartermaster
General Gilmore and cost some $4,000
The quart has realized by
the sale of old arms and equipments which
were stored in the arsenal sum SUN
cient with the amount appropriated by the
State to pay tor the new rifles and equip
ments. Grnel al Gilmore disposed Of some
roo muzzit leaders and lot OF carbines,
sabres, ttuts and other stores on most ad
Vanth-tuus terms.
The new arms will be distributed as fol
lows: Forty six guns to the Estel Guard
BraIirburn. the PARK Guard, Benning
ton, the. KINGSLEY Guard, Rutland, the
Spin.ue uuald, Brandon, the Barlow
G.Hys, 81 Albaus, the Grout Guard, New
port, the 81 Johnsbury Guard, st Johns
bury, the Capital Guard. Montpelier, the
New England Guard, NOrtnreld, the
5raGfoId Guud, Bradford, he Barre com
pauS aud the new RIchtord company.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
Not Yet Masters.
New York Herald


We have seen it stated that very
prominent railroad official said, on the
passage of the inter State commerce law,
"Well I'm glad of 1t. If the president APP
points competent and honest men to be
commissioners we can get on. 1t he APP
points incompetent and weak men we will
buy them" We believe Mr.. Cleveland
has appointed competent, honest and strong
men, and we congratulate him upon his
choice We repeat the advice we have
several times given to the railroad mag
mates of the country-let them unite To
give the law fair trial / il shah prove
10 need amendment, Congress VIII do
that. But if they should, rs some silly
railroad people have proposed, pool their
issues" to resist and uullity the law, pub
lie opinion will demaLd even Hm)re rl-or
Gus act than tins one. The railroads are
not yet the masters i'll this country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
A Startling Prediction.

A special despatch to the Boston Jour
nal from Washington says; Prof. Nc
Gee of the geological survey, who person
ally visited Charleston to investigate the
earthquake and its causes, stated in lee
ture the other night that its area extend
ed from Canada to Cuba, and from the
Mississippi to the Bermudas, or, even if
tue most moderate estimate be made
for its extent under the ocean,
over nearly u million and quarter of
square miles. Few of the reliable
recorded earthquakes of other coun-
tries, he said "have affected 50 great
art rs AS those of New Madrid and Charles
ton. That of Lisbon was perhaps felt
over a much greater area, but the data
are uncertain" He added the prediction
that "lf, rs it seems evident, displacement
and cart hquakes 90 t"gether,then the E!st-
ern United state, are III danger, Tor dis
placement is nov IN progress at laie 80
aslonishingly rapid as to occasion surprise
that earthquakes are not more frequent,
and in curloHs and unconscious defiance
of the inevitable, the GILES OF Pitlshurg,
Richmond, Fredericksburg, Washington,
Baltimore, Port Deposit. Wilmington,
Philadelphia, Trenton and New York have
been located on the very line OF displace-
ment."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
Shooting Affair at Ludlow,

William H. Snow shot Charles Ashley
Thursday evening about 8 o'clock, near
the Ludlow station. The ball which
struck Ashley's left breast was extracted
by DR. Lane, and the wound will not
prove serious. The occasion of the shoot
ing was the alleged intimacy of Snow
with Ashley's wife. Last fall Ashley
went to Canada for several weeks and
Snow at this time was boarder in Ash
ley's family. Upon Ashley's return, be
says that >now had alienated his wife's
affections. On Thursday Mrs. Ashley
took what goods she desired and went to
the home OF Mrs. Blodgett, "A sister OF
see his l0-yearS-old son, but was denied
little later the parties met at the station
and Ashley was shot by Snow. Snow was
arrested and lodged in jail
In the trial of William Snow, who shot
Charles Ashley at Ludlow in quarrel
the testimony showed that Ashley haC
several times threatened to take Shows
life before the encounter took place il
which Ashley WAS shot. Snow employed
Sheriff Howe TO stay at his boarding pIac,
during the evening, and Howe had bu
just gone when Ashley came and demand
ed az entrance, say ing that he wished t,
see his boy. Ashley finally went ava.
and again met Snow at the depot wher
he attacked him. The case will undouOt
eddy result in Snow being bound over t,
appear at the County Court. Papers ar
already in the hands of the officer 70
AShley'S arrest.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
WESTERN LOANS.
How it Strikes a Farmer

TO the Editor of the Free Press:
have before me an advertisement by a
"Western loan agency" where the lender
is insured "S per cent interest for five
years, secured by first mortgages on Da.
kota farms worth three to ten times the
amount of loan or ~ per cent interest Sc
cured by first mortgage on personal prop
erty worth from three to twelve times the
amount of the loan" This is the Ian
guage of the advertisement. Strange as
it may seem, thousands of dollars are be-
ing constantly sent to be invested in this
way. Young men in Vermont find it hard to
make loans to buy farms here good land
in every town goes begging for buyers at
rediculously low prices or lies uncultivated
and some times unused for the want of
the funds that 90 off on such wild cat
schemes. Our savings banks will not
make a loan unless on the closest scrutiny
and if an old and apparently outlawed
mortgage Is found undlscharged the Dor
rover is turned off until. at large expense
sometimes, the encumbrance is removed.
This is all right, OF course But upon what
basis do banks and trust companies
loans by the thousands of dollars True,
somebody guarantees the loan, but who
goes sponsor for those who offer the
guaranty b? Who is back of it ali ? Who
is the judge OF the value of these Western
farms Who knows that they would
bring under the hammer or on foreclosure
one half the value of the loan See what
a correspondent in Farm and FirCSide,
kimball, Dakota, says Of farm values
| there "A four years residence here has
enabled me to speak advsedly, and when
said that not one who came here and de-
pended on farming for an income but had
| gone down hill, | speak the simple truth
those who came full-handed and loaned
their money, or invested it in stock, or
went back to some reservation or isolated
place and escaped taxation, have made
money. Crops are short and prices low.
40 to Is cents; oats, Is to 81
bushels, Is to IS cents; corn of pre-
vious years fair, but most of it frostbitten
flax, four to 10 bushels per acre, so to %
cents per 6ushel milk, no sale butter, :
cents per pound; eggs, 5 cents per dozen
live stock, ~ to "a cents per pound. Now
look on the other side; Soft COAL IS per
tom hard. Sl3; dried fruit, 8 to 20 cents
per pound, owing to quality and kind
The high price of fuel has driven ever
wei TO do people to the use of hay. corn
stalks, flax straw, and through the sum
mer ST on almost all residing in the rura
districts have used cowchips, which is /
} polite name for dry COW dung, tor fuel
Add to this third of mans time tol
hauling water, and yon will have some
thing OF IL correct idea of the inconveni
ences AID expenses of living in new
country.
In all candor. is there not enough in thi
, to put thinking people on their guard he
, fore answering these seductive loan ad
vertiSem-nts? Not one man in hundre,
VINO has little surplus TO operate Will
Will make loan in his own town that rep
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01

Considerable alarm has been caused
among horsemen in the vicinity of Troy,
n y, by the appearance of disease call
ed swollen leg" 1t manifests itself in
swollen legs and breaking out of the
skin and surrounding tissues, and there
have been some deaths from the com
plant This disease is said to be not a
disease OF itself, but the esult of an irrlta
ton of the skin caused by the water and
slush on the street, and the sudden action
of toe weather, freezing and thawing
alternately. AS number of persons have
suffered with the poison by innoculation
the horses should be handled with the
greatest of care.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
GOVERNMENT TESTS.


The fact that Royal Baking Powder is, in all respects
the best baking powder offered the public has been
established beyond question.
Prof. H A. Mott when employed by the U. S. Govern
men to anayze the various baking powders the market
to determine which the best and most economical after
extended investigation, reported in favor of the Royal
and it was adopted for government use.
Prof. Mott has continued his examinations of baking
powders sold at the present day, and aims it his
deliberate Judgment arrived after thorough research
and careful examination of the principal brands of the
market that the Royal is undoubtedly the pures and
reliable baking powder offered to the public Prof Mott
his recent report, says:
'The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure, for I
have found it in many tests made both for that company
and the U. S. Government.
81 will go still further and that because of the
facilities that company have for obtaining perfectly pure
of tartar and for other dependent upon the
proper proportions of the same and the method of it's
preparation the Royal Baking Powder undoubtedly the
purest and most reliable baking powder offered to the
public DR. HENRY A. MOTT PHDn
Government Chemist
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
The Mail Service Again.

Our Hyde Park correspondent writes
Burlington is not the only place which
suffers from faulty mail service. pack
age was registered in Boston on Thursday
and was not received at this Office until
the next Tuesday noon. 1t was IA package
of importance and caused considerable
inconvenience to the parties and if it had
been delayed until the evening mail
would have been cause of quite loss"
The Brattleboro PhGntT says: 1--WE un-
derstand that letters for the Merchants
National bank of BURLINGTON have repeat
eddy come to the Bratt!eboro office from
both the Nav York and Boston routes,
through the carees-ness or ignorance OF
mail clerks. For some time the inefficient
character of the service between Bellows
Falls and Rutland has been source OF
annoyance to people here who have CORE
DOudeutS on that route
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
TWO TRAMPs IN TROUBLE.


Two tramps who refuse to give their
names were arrested Sunday by Officer
Dumas on the charge ot stealing n wotch
and chain from the old ChamplHin House
They had room ut that house Saturday
night and yesterday morning they took
their departure before any one else was up
in the house, without settling their bills.
Later in the forenoon one of the guests dis
covered that his watch and chain were
missing and suspicion was at once direct
ed to the missing couple. Officer
Dumas was summoned and after
searching some time he found that
two young men answering their deScrlp-
ton had offered the watch and chain for
sale at the Rowe hotel, but they had lett
the hotel about half an hour before. After
looking about the city for short time i'll
vain the officer started for Winooski and
he learned from the street railroad EN-
ployes that the two trnmps had gone in
that direction about 10 minutes before.
In Winooski the tramps were about the
first persons he met on the street and they
were arrested and brought to jail The
| taller of the two admitted Offering watch
for sale, but claimed that he gave it back
to the stranger who asked him to sell 1t.
| The other would say nothing about the
matter. The evidence looks strong, but if
it is found to be insufficient they will be
held for jumping their board bill.
The tramps give their names as f.
II. Field of Sherbrooke, p. O., and vii
! liam Morrison, who refuses TO give his
home. They have been identified rs Grim
inals Just released from Pittsburgh Jail,
where they were sent for 10 days from
Rouses Point for stealing pair of rubber
boots. just before the arrest they had been
to Father Audet, the pastor of st. Francis
Xavier church of Winooski, and had
there offered the watch and chain for Sc
/ itxr nd bod tfNC or oil ifrht hnp
they went to the overseer Of the poor
Peter Lafountain, and got an order for
their lodging that night. They were then
arrested and handcutfed but between there
and the Jail they managed to throw the
watch away, and yesterday it was found
by lady, and was identified as the one
stolen. Various other little things were
found in their possession which have beer
identified as belonging TO Mr.. and Mrs
Donnelly, the proprietors of the old Cham
plain House on Battery street, and which
were stolen at the same time AS the othel
property.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
A PLEASING TEsTIMONIAL.
Resolutions Presented to Antonio Lodg,
by Mlrinm Lodge OF BenningtOn

by Miriam Lodge of Bennington
The visit Of Miriam lodge, Daughters Of
Rebekah, to the Antonio lodge of this city
was one Of the most enjoyable events in
the history OF the latter lodge, vino retain
n handsome memeuto of the visit Miriam
lodge was present at the institution of
Ant0uin lodge, November I last, and reso
lutiOns were subsequently passed by them
expressive of the fraternal gathering and
thanks for courtesles received at the
hands of the Queen City Odd Fellows
aud their families. These reso-
lutiuns were eugrossed, framed, and
presented formally by the committee III
charge consisting OF II. l.. Slillson, Grand
Representative of Sovereign Grand Lodge
Past Grand Master :. q. Putnam. II. f.
Pulfer Grand Warden, Mrs. Hathaway
Mrs. Stillson and Mrs. Putnam. The pre-.
sentation speech was made by Grand Rep
resentatlve Stillson in a feicitious man
ner, and his remarks were greeted with
enthusiastic applause.
Ex-Alderman j. w. Goodell responded
ana during the course of his remarks he
defined Antonio as THE Inestima de, !"
and said Questionable as woman is to
man. so may you be to the cause of Odd
Fellowship in your own beautiful town
Yes. in that town SO very beautifully nest
ling in the foot hills of the Green Noun
tans whose range extends from the
southern to our States most northern
limit, may your light so brightly burn
that no part of our broad State shall fail
to see its shining rays, and as in days
gone by the influence of Vermont has
been felt throughout our nations bounds,
so may the light spread till the brightness
of Miriam ana her sister luminaries shall
spread from shore to shore, yes, from land
to land, till wherever there is found an
Odd Fellow there too may Rebekah's
mission shine with all its kindly minis
trations."
The work is a magnificent piece of pen
drawing aud was executed by p. A. IIur-
tado at Eastman college, Poughkeepsle,
n. Y. In the resolutions reference is
made to sentiment uttered in 1851 by the
fourth Grand Master of the State and his
name TuXbury, is composed of rustic
idea the letter "Y'' in his name being
the historic Charter Oak, drawn to the
life as it appeared when standing. The
emblems of the degree appear and Re
bekah at the well also appears as a back
ground to the caption. The whole makes
Il picture 22X3O inches, which is on exhibit
ton in one of l.. e. Burnham's show
windows
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01

A singular accident happened to freight
train No. 4, which leaves Rutland early
in the morning for Bellows Falls. just
before reaching Cuttingsville station
Thursday morning "A coupling broke be.
tween The third and fourth cars from the
rear, and the caboose and two freight cars
thus cut off started down the grade to-
ward Rutland aud soon attained "A high
rate of speed. They did uot stop until they
arrived AT the depot yard there. Luckily
swltchman 5 NV the runaways coming
down the track, pull. d open the switch,
aud threw the cars from the track Nc
damage was done save the breaking of the
car trucks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.


An unfortunate accident occurred Mon
day afternoon, by means of which two
men with large families dependent upon
them for support will he unable to work
for several months. A small building is
in process of removal from the Old St.
Joseph's church to the new church
on Allen street. While work was in
progress yesterday one of the ropes
which held IA pulley block broke and the
great strain caused the block to strike
Jerry Benolt, who was experimenting the
work, in the left leg about four inches be-
low the knee with such force that both
bones were broken. The same block also
hit Isaac Fugere in the left ankle and
broke one of the bones near the joint.
DIR. Bingham was Immediately sum
moned and attended to Fugere's III urles
and also with the assistance of DR.. Car
rieres set the broken bones of Benoit
Neither of the men Is a member OF any OF
the benevolent societies aud their cases
are douDly unfortunate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
He Locked the Gate.

AS Sheriff Barton was driving toward
Williston, Thur day, he encountered near
the Petty farm a blockade which was not
wholly caused by snow. The road was 50
badly drlfted that teams went in the field
and a young man had chained and locked
the only gate in fence which barred the
way at that point, declaring that no more
teams could cross that farm, as he had
notified the selectmen that the road was
blockaded and they had not performed
their duty. The sheriff gave his papers to
man who decided to return to Willis
ton and came back to this city. He after
ward saw here one of the teams that
stood on the opposite side of the gate sc
the gate keeper probably capitulated.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
IMPORTANT BUSINESS CHANGES.
T.. y. shaw Disposes of His Stock to A. n
Percy and &. n. wheeler.

The business public werr surprised last
week by the announcement that Il. p.
Shaw had sold his stock of clothing to A.
y. Percy aud G. f. Wheeler tout II card
on the door marked "closed Of invoice
showed that the statement was true On
inquiry it was learned that the new firm
would carry on business under the name
of Percy g. Wheeler They expect to open
be completed, which will probably he fin
ished Monday or Tuesday Mr.. Shaw has
been led to make this change by i'll health,
arising from a throat trouble, and he will
probably spend some time III travel. He
has been in business here ID years
and has occupied his present store 10 years.
Daring this time he has won many friends
who will wish for him speedy return to
complete health. Mr. Percy has been in
the clothing business in this city too long
to need an introduction to the public as
a live and popular clOthier Mr.. Wheeler
has been assistant postmaster for the past
IL years, but previous to that period he
had II years experience in mercantile pur-
suits He has an excellent reputation "a a
careful business man and the new 1irm,wil
undoubtedly achieve large measure of
success. Henry X. Hill, who has won an rX-
cellent reputation as head clerk and sales
man for Mr.. Shaw for the past 10 years
has rented the Globe clothing store which
he will open about April 10 with stock
of hats, caps and Eentlemeu's furnishing
goods as well as full line of trunks and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
Fire in Charlotte.

The dwelling owned and occupied by Mr.
Joseph Fonda about one mile north of
Ferrisburgh Hollow was totally consumed
by fire early Friday evening. The house
was occupied also by Mr.. Henry Palmer
and family. The cause of the fire was
probably defective chimney Nearly all
the household goods were taken out the
property was insured. The Palmer fami-
ly were cared for by Mrs. Palmer's parents
about two miles east of their late place OF
residence.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01
TROY METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Programme for the Annual Session In
Saratoga Next Month.

Programme for the Annual Session In
Saratoga Next Month.
The 54th annual session of the Troy con
ference will be held this year at Saratoga
Springs, commencing on Wednesday.
April 20. The following programme has
been prepared for the session by the pre-
siding elders and secretaries:
Wednesday, April Examination of class
es. First ear at 10 Il. m.. second year, 10 a. m;
third year, $3.50 Il. m and fourth year, p. N.
Annual meeting of conference trustees at =
p. IN.
Thursday-9 a. M, opening session, -presi
dent, he Rev. Bishop w. l.. Harris, D. ID. LII.
ciett, the Rev. X. >. kust, d. d., of Cincin-
rati; $50 p. m, anniversary OF Woman's
Home Missionary society, the Rev. j. w. Ham
ilton, ID. D., Of Boston; :: - p. M, anniversar!
of Church Extension society, the Rev. Drs
A. J. X ynette and w. a. Spencer Of Philadel-
pha.
Fridays ~. m, conference session: p. m.
examination of candidates for admission i'll
room two; 2;3O p M, annual missionary ser
$3.50 p. m, annual his'nricel sermon by the
Rev. DE-. .,Ustwick Hawley of Saratoga
Spri gs: $50 p. M. anniversary Of education
al society, the Rev. Prof. l.. 7. Townsend OF
Boston.
Saturday-9 a. m, conference session. 2:30
p m, auI iversary OF Sunday school society.
the Rev. j. ID. Hurlburt, ID. OF New York :;
80 p. m, anniversary of conference temper
ance sncc y, the R-v G: L. Collyer of Glen
Falls ;,:3O p. m, lecture for entertainment OF
conference Claimants by the Rev. DR.. James
NJ. King of New York, subject, "A chapter in
modern history" Pastors are requested t.
kindly ask representative laymen to send
contributions to this worthy fund to its
treasur +, the Rev. f.. p Stevens of BalstOn.
SUNDAYS II. m: love feast; 1880 a. M, ser
mon 10y Bishop Harris aud ordination OF cid
ers ; 23O D. M, sermon and ordination of dea
CONS; 1870 p. m, union missionary anniver
sary. the Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Thorburn of India.
Munday-9 Il. m. conference session. Sub
sequent sessi ons at the convenience of Bishop
Harris.